Make AFK avoidance against the rules

SUGGESTION
The suggestion is to make it punishable to avoid the auto-spectator using console commands like +right

REASONS
The reason I am suggesting this change is that even if done on an empty or near-empty server, if that server starts to get populated players will have to wait for a mod to come on to force-spec them or hope they aren't a T and have to wait till overtime. Or people get bored and start RDMing and then we get forum reports.

COUNTER
Sure maybe someone doesn't want to get moved to another server due to ping issues. BUT if you aren't going to be playing for hour+ the ping doesn't even matter, and you can just move servers again when you return.


If there isn't a rule against avoiding the auto-AFK system, why even have the system in the first place? The fact that the system exists means that in general AFKs aren't wanted in the round.

 

I mean.... Yeah +1 it used to be against the rules. But someone decided hahahaha funny afk unable kill overtime.

 

I agree with what has been said, +1

I have a question, say the Vanilla server is not full, why are AFK spectators moved to different servers? I can see that as a reason for AFK avoidance.

 

It's always baffled me why 1. People would do this
and 2. Why it's allowed.
It serves no benefit to anyone. We, the players, just have to play our rounds with someone we can only kill in overtime unless we want to risk an RDM report, and it also has a potential to immediately take a T or D slot and the entire game is impacted even more severely. The person being AFK isn't getting any more or less points as far as I'm aware, and even if they are, who the fuck cares? They aren't playing, let them get the spectator amount of points.

It's a small detriment, but it's a detriment to anyone playing with a person avoiding autospectate. We HAVE autospectate to begin with for a very good reason.

+1

 

It's called delaying

 

@Jabba the Slut His point is more centered around when there is no staff on the server.

 

Which tends to take several rounds and doesn't help when staff don't notice/aren't online.
Like, it's great you do that, but that doesn't change that everyone who ISN'T staff regularly spends collectively dozens of minutes just waiting for an anti-AFK script user to die.
Legit, this is a problem you, as staff, would not understand in the slightest, because you are the only person who can change it.

It doesn't seem like a problem to you because of your ability to fix it, but for everyone else: It is a problem, and there is no positive benefit for the server allowing it.

 

That is odd, I have been moved multiple times from vanilla when the server is not above 30 players. Maybe it is staff.

 

Name one positive benefit for the server for people being able to subvert the auto-spectate function.
You should remember how irritating it is to deal with players who, round after round, are persistently AFK. It delays rounds and takes up the traitor and detective slots that are core to gameplay.

The round-delaying aspect alone should be enough to ban it.

Why the hell do you want this around?

Edit: This is the last thing to be called a 'Big deal' but there is literally no good reason to allow this. It's purely a negative for every single person who does not use the AFK script, even if that negative is tiny.

 

Jabba: *makes a valid argument*

Tomcat, A mature adult:

 

Just add a rule of 'No avoiding Auto-spec' and give it a mild punishment. It's not that complicated.
Killing players in overtime also results in players losing karma for no reason, which is another negative.

 

The dude is acting like this is equivalent to normal afking, and then treating it like it's some insurmountable problem.
It's an active effort on part of a player that serves to detract from the experience of everyone else involved.

 

90% of the people who I see using an anti force-spec script are regulars.
Make it a rule, they'll stop.
Besides, if staff are on as often as you say they are in other threads, a forum report wouldn't even be necessary- They'd just be caught when staff gets on. Give a kick, give reasoning as 'Auto-spectate', and the message will have been heard. If they keep going, maybe give 'em an hour ban. Just something to get the message across.

The point of rules isn't so people are constantly punished over them, it's to deter people from giving others a bad experience while playing.